I love what I do and I love the fans.

I went out, but I went in the closet. I stayed in there for awhile, but eventually I had to come out.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

What seemed so original and unique and precious about what we were doing… That’s a little rough, when you see the guy [in a new show] cast exactly as your character. As William Petersen ]...

It’s a pretty pleasurable experience.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we’re all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

I think I’m a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Hm, I think I always had respect for the profession, my dad was a district attorney back home for over 20 years, so I had that going in.

I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.

I have a Lab, it’s fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it’s fun.

I’m just trying to let everything lie and grow right now, I’m not going to pressure myself to do anything that it’s right for the time.

I think I’ll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

I’ve seen a dead body, I’ve seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I’ve been a hunter since I was a child, though I don’t anymore, I’ve gutted wild game.

I think my character’s getting to the point where he can’t even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can’t sleep anymore.

The show has boundaries right now we’re trying to widen them not break them.

I’ve been trying to pick up painting but it’s hard.

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they’ll allow me to explore another direction to go until we’re all comfortable with what we are...

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where...

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It’s shot in Santa Clarita, CA.